Creating an A3 sized document in Google Docs

The new version of the Google Docs Document Editor has a lot of features, but a few are only available in the old version of the document editor. These include editing in HTML or CSS, or offline document access via Google Gears. I got used to having access to the CSS stylesheets, and so I set Google Docs’ preferences to create all new documents in the OLD version of the editor.

Select the version of the editor in Documents Preferences, as shown below:

But when I needed to create an “A3” sized document recently, I was surprised to see how limited the available sizes were:

Very few sizes at all, and definitely no A3! Off I went to the Help Center. Oddly for a Search company, searching their Help Center is an incredibly frustrating experience. Querying on “A3”, “Page Sizes”, “Print sizes” all generate a lot of useless or misleading results.